US 11,751,005 B2
Providing grave information using augmented reality
Gary Lee Mangum, Springville, UT (US); James Bart Whiteley, Provo, UT (US); David Layne Boothe, Eagle Mountain, UT (US); Byron Hundley, Saratoga Springs, UT (US); Russell Adrian Ochoa, Orem, UT (US); and Kendall Jay Jefferson, Lindon, UT (US)
Assigned to ANCESTRY.COM OPERATIONS INC., Lehi, UT (US)
Filed by Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Lehi, UT (US)
Filed on Jul. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/369,704.
Application 17/369,704 is a continuation of application No. 16/262,749, filed on Jan. 30, 2019, granted, now 11,093,746.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/624,310, filed on Jan. 31, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0334539 A1, Oct. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 67/306 (2022.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); H04L 65/00 (2022.01); H04N 21/00 (2011.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); H04L 67/131 (2022.01); G06V 30/10 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 4/02 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3407 (2013.01); G01C 21/36 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); H04L 65/00 (2013.01); H04L 67/131 (2022.05); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04N 21/00 (2013.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01); G06V 30/10 (2022.01); H04W 4/026 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving an image of a grave captured by a mobile electronic device, the image including at least a portion of a grave marker;
extracting, information from the image comprising a name of a person and at least one date captured in the portion of the grave marker;
accessing a database of grave profiles and determining a presence of the extracted name within the database in association with the at least one date captured from the portion of the grave marker,
determining the extracted name is associated with an existing grave profile in the database of grave profiles;
determining the existing grave profile does not provide a cemetery name;
determining a location of the mobile electronic device is within a threshold distance of one or more cemeteries; and
adding a cemetery name to the existing grave profile selected from the one or more cemeteries that contains the grave.